On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 11:06:21PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > A few weeks ago, the 2.4 kernels have been declared "deprecated" [1]. I > would like to know what does this exactly mean: > - That users are advised not to use them? > - That we could drop support for them in other packages? > - That they will be removed from the archive soon?
It means 1), and should mean 3) as well. In general, it does *not* imply 2) -- we need to be assured of having a clean upgrade path from sarge to etch, and since sarge shipped with a 2.4 kernel by default, this means that etch packages should at least be functional enough on 2.4 to allow a full upgrade and subsequent reboot to a new kernel. (That includes not breaking the system if the upgrade is interrupted and the system is rebooted again to a 2.4 kernel before the upgrade completes.) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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